Americans today don't like to punish the guilty, only the innocent. Like so many other disgraced American executives, this Jerry certainly "fell well."
I don't understand all the fuss about cellular tracking, or else I'm missing something. If lack of phone privacy bothers you, just turn off location processing (such as in ✈ mode) except when needed. And it extends battery life, too, as RF receiver is disabled.
Exploiting popular addictions, in this case to cell phones, has proven to be a more powerful mechanism for social control than Orwell or Huxley imagined. I am amazed at how often I see peoples' faces "glued" to their phones.
The vow has much to do with this, e.g. Num. 30:2. Marriages, court proceedings, and political offices all assume the good faith of those sworn to uphold them.
But today, perhaps more than ever before, they are merely an empty formalism, as most, including Christians it seems, do not believe they will answer to God for breaking them.
Frank wrote: ...And let me just add, they have done an outstanding job of destroying the family structure...
To be sure though, perhaps most marriages break up without evident official encouragement. I was shocked at the number of divorced folks I met, including Christians, when I entered the workforce in the early '80s. Perhaps this is the baneful effect of radically self-centered American individualism (shared by Left and Right), coupled with a relentless cultural dilution of shame and guilt for sin which in the past may have kept many marriages together.
The laws, however, are no help anymore in that they provide all possible incentives for divorce or illegitimacy.
Frank wrote: And one of Hillary’s infamous quotes regarding raising a child: “it takes a village”.
Here, "village" is a euphemism for "federal government."
Leftists do not tolerate local autonomy. A Korean survivor of the 1950 war described how the Communists came to his village, put provocateurs in the crowd who blamed its elders for imaginary crimes, and had them stoned.
What Trump said is no different from what I've heard from many Christians and pastors over the years, who are confident God speaks intelligibly to them and interpret "signs" from Him. How can one argue with people who claim such things?
One pastor, a serious man whom I respected, left the church after two "signs" that it was time to go. I suspect, however, this was a polite cover story.
To be sure, foolish college punks, esp. lib-arts majors, have always been trouble, long before the '60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris_strike,_1229 and as usual, booze was involved.
Now if they really want to save power, maybe those Liberal Fascists should ban air conditioning, which is a big power hog.
But wait, this means even more people will emigrate to neighboring states, and it's not like they'll change their Progressive politics just because they don't like living in ovens. Scratch that.
Bad time to be an automobile field-test engineer. According to author Mary Walton, Death Valley is a favorite destination of carmakers for stress-testing new models. Car magazine paparazzi know this.
One might think the "Highest Recorded Temperature" record would be uncontroversial, but as with so many other truth claims, it's complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth
You gotta wonder how much experience it takes to read a thermometer in a "verifiable" way. Or is it an exercise in herd psychology?
To me, this is yet another example of how subjective empirical science actually is, as explained here: www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=19
News article tip learned from Time magazine: loaded adjectives like "controversial," a good shorthand way to discredit someone without argument. Now maybe there *is* something dodgy with Feucht, but that's not the point of the article.
Any researcher with school-aged kids could have a Conflict of Interest. But regardless, there are other flaws one could find in such studies, starting with the Covid statistics they collect being as unstable as the virus itself. So such press releases are worthless, whether published by gov't authorities, private NGOs, UK "quangos", or corporations.
I'm only surprised to learn that this is new policy, for the French have long abandoned Catholic scruples on other ethical questions.
For example, while no culture has a monopoly on marital infidelity, the French reputation as masters of adultery has some merit: "France was the only country where less than 50% of respondents described infidelity as unacceptable." www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/14/french-more-accepting-of-infidelity-than-people-in-other-countries/
Or else this means that they're simply less hypocritical about it than others.
Frank wrote: Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.”
Perspective is tricky since the NT was written in an earthquake-prone part of the world; I would watch the Mediterranean/Levant area for possible prophecy fulfillment, as Premills already do.
In other words, I'm not sure the San Andreas or Cascadia Faults, for example, are pertinent, though the latter is supposed to be a Humdinger when it goes.
Since universities, the breeding ground for modern communism, were founded by medieval White Men to educate the clergy, clearly they're racist and need to go.
The Quiet Christian wrote: ...This is the reslut of critical race theory, which has declared mathematics to crafted by white men...
which is absurd since Indians and Arabs love to point out their cultures' contributions to mathematics, e.g. our decimal number system and the work of this man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi
If conservatives and esp. church leaders had any sense, by now they should understand that everything they say or do will be scrutinized to the last pixel and jot; they must be above reproach.
With Trump his enemies had to resort to making stuff up, which I still think is amazing, given the social milieu he's from.
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